"A Necromancer?" Cai narrowed its eyes as it gazed at the group of Skeleton Fighters that were attacking its tough hide with their steel swords.
Due to its tough fur, the Skeleton fighters' attacks were at most tickling Cai's body, making the Boar snort in contempt. With a simple swipe of its tusks, the skeletons around him were sent flying, losing a third of their lives in the process.
"Is this all you got?" Cai asked. "I can do this all day."
Lux didn't answer Cai's taunt and simply used his skills to buff his Skeleton fighters.
"Improved Jade Body."
"Barbed Bones."
"Undying Fervor."
"Decaying Touch."
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When Lux upgraded his body constitution, the Immortal Dragon Conqueror Legacy, he gained several powerful skills alongside Dragon Scale and Dragon Heart, which were Undying Fervor, Corpse Explosion, and Decaying Touch.
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Undying Fervor [EX]
– Increase the Physical and Magical Damage of any Undying Creature under your command by 100%
– Increase the Physical and Magical Defense of any Undying Creature under your command by 100%
– Increase Health and Mana regeneration of any Undying Creature under your command by 100%
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Decaying Touch [EX]
– Has a 20% chance to inflict Decay on your target with every strike.
– Has a 10% chance to inflict Weakness on your target with every strike.
– Has a 10% chance to inflict Disease on your target with every strike.
Decay – Deals 100 True Damage every 3 seconds for 12 seconds.
Weakness - reduce your target's Physical and Magical defense by 20%.
Disease - decrease your target's attack speed, movement speed, mana regeneration, health regeneration, and evasion by 20%
– If Disease skill is active, increase Decay's True Damage by 200 every 3 seconds for 15 seconds.
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After receiving Lux's buffs, the Skeleton units under his command turned incredibly menacing.
The Skeletons grew barbed spikes on their bodies made up of bones. These spikes dealt 10 Piercing True Damage to anyone that attacked them.
Although 10 damage seemed like an insignificant number, the amount would still stack up every time any of them got hit, making them very thorny opponents.
Also, l their attacks were infused with Decaying Touch, which allowed their blows to ignore defense and deal true damage once it activated.
Just as Cai was feeling the pricklyness of its opponents, several ice arrows landed on its body, making it feel a chilling cold.
Ishtar, Lux's Skeleton Hunter, had finally arrived on the scene. Her appearance made the Boar's life extremely more difficult because. As a Skeleton Hunter, her abilities were perfect for hunting. Slowing the prey down before going in for the kill.
"Dammit!" Cai, who was being attacked on all sides, was starting to get angry. Although the damage that was being dealt to it was small, it didn't change the fact that the Skeletons were quite aggressive in their attacks, targeting the Boar in places that made it infuriated, like its eyes, ears, and nostrils.
"You won't beat me even with this much!" Cai shouted as it trampled, smashed, bashed, stomped, and bit the Skeletons that were attacking it on all sides, making them shatter into a pile of bones.
However, before the Boar could feel better about its accomplishments, Lux resummoned his minions again, causing Cai to roar in anger.
Summoning his ordinary minions didn't have any cooldown time, so it was fairly easy for Lux to continuously revive the ones that had been killed.
As for his Named Creatures, all of them had a five-minute cooldown, but this cooldown would start the moment they were summoned. Meaning, if Diablo were to be killed after his skill finished its cooldown, the Skeleton Rider could be resummoned again for a second time without any problems.
Seeing that there was no end to the Skeleton's madness, Cai decided to ignore them and just focused on attacking Lux.
The problem was that Lux was in the air, and aside from the Fury Attack, it only had one more ability that could hit targets that were out of reach. The only drawback was that this attack had a five minute cooldown time.
Cai was reluctant to use it because the possibility of Lux evading it was high, making its Trump Card useless.
"If you've got guts come down here and fight me!" Cai roared in a challenging tone.
Lux only smiled as if he found Cai's words funny.
Necromancers didn't usually engage in close combat. They would usually hide behind their Skeleton Armies and let the Skeletons do the fighting for them. The Half-Elf was an exception since he had been trained as a warrior long before he became a Necromancer, making him proficient in close combat and group warfare.
As if ridiculing Cai's attempt to force him to go down on the ground, two clones appeared on Pazuzu's shoulders and sat there.
A second later, the number of Skeletons that Cai was fighting at the same time tripled, but this time around, three more Rock Golems joined the fray, making the Boar almost spit blood in frustration.
"Damn it all!" Cai shouted when the Skeleton army charged at its body and hacked it with all of their might. A small hill made up of bones could be seen at the center of the arena, as the Skeleton Fighters covered the Boar's body, while repeatedly stabbing it with their swords.
"Don't underestimate me!"
A shockwave blasted away all the skeletons that had piled on top of the Boar whose body had turned completely red.
"Hyper Blast!
A silver beam of magical energy shot out of Cai's mouth and flew towards Pazuzu, who was hovering above the arena. The Boar had waited for the perfect opportunity to strike, while it was being gangbanged by the Skeletons that totaled to almost two hundred.
Seeing the beam of light approaching him, Pazuzu didn't even bother to use his shield to block. Instead, he used his skill, Madlad Rush, to fly as fast as he could to evade Cai's attack that was filled with its hate and frustration.
The beam passed a meter away from the Demonic Defender and easily destroyed the barrier that was set up in the arena.
Fortunately, the beam was shot upwards, so there was no danger of the audience getting hit.
After the attack ended, the boar was once again covered by countless Skeletons that relentlessly hacked it without fear of dying.
The glowing embers in their eyes grew in intensity, as if they were souls that burned brightly, which made Cai, who looked down on them earlier, start feeling intimidated by their dauntless attacks. Was it because they didn't fear death?
The clones that sat on Pazuzu's shoulders weren't being idle either. They used their range spells, Void Arrows, as well as Spinning Blades to make Cai's life more difficult.
Only the boar's angry squealing reverberated in the arena as its strength, health, will, and determination slowly deteriorated.
Nero, who was watching this battle, clenched his fist in anger. He had thought that Lux had fought against him using his full power, but the scene reflected in his eyes proved otherwise.
Even Gilbert, who thought that the battle was as good as over, sucked in a cold breath as the Skeletons relentless attacks overwhelmed the Rank 4 Field Monster, who could only be defeated by a hundred-men team that specialized in taking down Boss Monsters.
"I don't know about any of you, but I certainly don't want to be in the same arena as those Skeletons," Violet commented as Cai's desperate squealing reached everyone's ears. "I really hate fighting the Undead. Sometimes, it takes more than killing them to kill them permanently."
Gilbert, Natasha, Rainer, as well as the other Guardians of Wildgarde Stronghold, who had come to watch the tournament in Barbatos Academy, all had solemn expressions on their faces.
In their eyes, Lux was similar to a Raid Team that could take down high level Dungeons in order to gain resources, as well as kill the Boss Monsters—whose materials were sought after by merchants, blacksmiths, and even collectors, who would then buy them at a high price.
They didn't dare to think about what Lux could become if he became a Ranker in Elysium.
A Necromancer that had become a Ranker was a terrible opponent because they could summon hundreds, and even thousands, of Undead in battle.
The scary part was that those who died fighting them, would suddenly rise up from the dead and attack their former comrades, repeating the process over and over again.
There were still a few famous Necromancers in Elysium, and all of them held vast swaths of territories.
No one dared to fight them because they understood that before they could reach the Necromancer, they would have to face their Skeleton Summons, whose ferocity was far greater than the ferocity that Lux's skeletons were exuding right now.
